#a jewish version

[gay-jewish-bucky]

A high-quality edit of Keshet's Jewish Progress Pride Flag

[whitesunlars]

hey. you. yeah you. if you think every and all zionists are inherently evil and the jewish people have no ties to the levant then the posts about antisemitism are about you.

[madametamma]

I just REALLY WANT a version of Clark Kent that was raised Jewish. I know that Superman is for everyone, regardless of faith, ethnicity, background, etc. and I love that, but if we’re strictly talking about where Superman came from, he was created by two Jewish men who were not shy about how much the Jewish stories they grew up with affected their work. So much of the character was inspired by Jewish folklore and religious texts and I would love it if they honored that by making at least one version of the character Jewish.

[doyouknowthisjewishcharacter]

Do you know this Jewish character?

Edit: Sorry guys I forgot Andrew Garfield played Spider-Man! (I have never watched a superhero movie ever.) It was in fact a grave mistake on my part to not have his picture. So, updated poll with the iconic Jewish bisexual Spider-Man!

[siderains]

what about my sweet boy

[unbidden-yidden]

Jewish Song of the Day #18: Am Yisrael Chai

Comments:

Happy Chai day!!! We made it to day 18!!!

Am Yisrael Chai basically translates out to "The Jewish People Live," and is a significant phrase because of just how many times people have tried to kill the whole Jewish people.

The original R. Shlomo Carlebach version popularized the phrase as a song a lot more recently than folks might realize, but the sentiment dates back ages. The specific phrase is said to have originated with a British Jewish army chaplain who reportedly called it out at the liberation of Bergen-Belsen after World War II.

There are several versions that I enjoy, but this version has the cute and funny story intro that reminded me of this cross-cultural conversation, so it won.

For those who do not know, 18 is a special number in Judaism, because it represents life and living. This is because every Hebrew letter also has a numeric value, and the Hebrew word for "life" is "chai" / חי and the letters that make it up have the numeric value of 18.

There are many things that one could say about this song, but the bottom line from my perspective is this: it's a celebration of the fact that the people who have tried to kill us off?

They have always failed.

They will, I"YH always fail.

עם ישראל חי!

Here's the one that started it all:

Bonus versions:

[idiotsonlyevent]

broken glass

[staticonthestratosphere]

My friends in yarn, I Simply Cannot Explain It

but I see stockinette stitch and I feel fireworks in my brain

[communistkenobi]

I’m curious if other communists have like a religious relationship to their political beliefs for lack of a better word? That’s not a good word to use but I don’t know how else to describe it. I’m solidly atheist but all of the feelings and emotions religious people talk about, revelation and spiritual connection to community and so on are all things I experience pretty regularly and I interpret those feelings as fundamentally communist. the way I take in and absorb information in particular feels revelatory in a religious sense. I’m pretty sure this is fairly common with MLs but I’m curious about it in general

[modestly-trying]

Can you use an AAC device on Shabbat

[rel312]

Clark using bagels as an excuse is so Jewish-coded of him

[elven-child]

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[traincat]

In a world where Peter Parker is canonically and explicitly Jewish, do you think Norman Osborn being the Green Goblin should be tied to that as like an anti-semitic thing? Or would it be better to leave it unaddressed and more metaphorical?

I think I've talked about this a little before but I do think there's an interesting potential reading of Norman as a self-hating Jewish man, or someone of partial Jewish heritage. (Spider-Gwen kind of went there in that they linked the Green Goblin name to something Harry was mockingly called because he was rich, with high school Harry of Spider-Gwen having hair that could be interpreted as a Jewfro, but since Harry was not explicitly canonically Jewish in Spider-Gwen, it just kind of came off as the creative team having some unaddressed antisemitism.) I don't think it's the only possible reading of Norman, far from it, but I think there's potential there to kind of explore something interesting, and that it only works if Peter is explicitly Jewish. Otherwise, it shifts from something that has the potential to explore antisemitism and how it manifests in our culture to just another manifestation of antisemitism in our culture. Norman's a really interesting character, even if I think he's misused and mishandled a lot of the times in modern comics, and I think he could be an interesting vehicle with which to explore these themes.

If Peter was explicitly Jewish, I think it's a path that would be potentially interesting, especially in kind of looking at Norman and Peter as very opposite ends of a scale, but that it would have to be handled with a lot of care, and it's not something I would trust to a non-Jewish creative who doesn't have any personal experience with antisemitism. So I don't think it would have to be strictly metaphorical, but that, if the writer wasn't capable of bringing certain experiences to the table, it would be better left that way, because the potential to perpetuate antisemitism instead of addressing it is huge. You can work with a bad comics metaphor in ways you can't work with just bad comics bigotry.

[cheers-mdears]

May I go on the record yet again to say that I love that Crowley isn't angry about Falling.

Sad? Frustrated? Sometimes. Remorseful? It's complicated. Yearns to understand? Abso-fucking-lutely. Angry? Resentful? Bitter? ...nah.

He's just *clenches fist* so fuckin' Jewish, I love him so much.

[gingerswagfreckles]

the way everyone on this site just assumes all atheists r ex-christians is really fucking gross lol. and frankly just goes to show how christian-centric 99% of you still are.

[officialyourdailyinspiration]

In My Father's House are Many Rooms

1 Let not your levavot be troubled [14:27]. You have emunah (faith) in Hashem. Also in me have emunah (faith). [SHEMOT 14:21; TEHILLIM 4:5] 2 In the Beis Avi there are many me'onot (dwelling places, permanent residences, homes, cf 14:23); if it were not so, would I have told you that I go to prepare a makom (place) for you? 3 And if I go and prepare a makom for you, I am coming again and will receive you to myself, that where I am, there you may be also.

1 Let not your heart be troubled: ye believe in God, believe also in me. 2 In my Father's house are many mansions; if it were not so, I would have told you; for I go to prepare a place for you. 3 And if I go and prepare a place for you, I come again, and will receive you unto myself; that where I am, there ye may be also. — John 14:1-3 | Orthodox Jewish Bible (OJB) and English Revised Version (ERVB) Orthodox Jewish Bible Copyright © 2002, 2003, 2008, 2010, 2011 by Artists for Israel International and The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible, which is in the public domain. Cross References: John 12:26; John 13:33; John 13:36; John 14:4; John 14:18; John 14:27-28; John 16:6; John 16:22; Hebrews 6:20